Ernest endeavours

WHEN Gorbys nightclub opened in Cork City 30 years ago, its owners didn’t know then that its next investor/part-owner had only just been born.

Entrepreneurial bar and restaurant owner, 30-year-old Ernest Cantillon, is the fresh investor and co-owner of the 20,000 sq ft Bróg, and Gorbys, on Oliver Plunkett Street, where a €1.5m investment is underway, due to re-open early in the New Year. It will join a reinvigorated Cork City nightclub scene, following last week’s multi-million euro makeover of the Savoy, on Patrick Street.

Mr Cantillon is investing €250,000 in a new river-view Fish Bar restaurant on the terrace of his €3m bar/restaurant Electric, developed in 2010 in partnership with restaurateur Denis Mullane, and he has also leased the adjacent kiosk on the Grand Parade/South Mall for another food business.